How Much Money Can You Make Organising A Quiz Night?
A quiz night can be an effective and reasonably simple way to make money. This article will look at how to run a successful quiz night, including hiring the venue, getting the quiz packs together and how much to charge.
Advertising
Without people willing to come to your quiz night, you’ll make nothing. So advertising it is a key ingredient. How you do this will depend on the target audience. If you are a landlord you could put up some posters and let your regulars know about the upcoming quiz.
An excellent method of collecting email addresses of potential quiz participants is to put a large jar or some other container on the bar with a sign telling people to drop their business cards in for the chance to win some great prizes. This can quickly allow you to get a good number of email addresses so you could email them details of you quiz night.
If the quiz night is going to be held for a parents evening at a school, or targeted at some other club or group of people then send out letters or flyers telling them about the evening and prizes (which Ill come onto later).
The All Important Quiz
Assuming you have had a successful marketing campaign you will now want to write or buy a great quiz.
There are plenty of free resources on the internet allowing you to create your own quiz. However, another option for people with not much free time is to buy a quiz pack online – you can usually pick one up for a couple of quid and download them immediately for very reasonable prices, and they can include picture rounds, answer sheets, questions and answers and tiebreaker questions.
If you do want to write your own quiz pack then you must keep to these rules: Include questions from different generations so as not to exclude people. Don’t make the questions too hard or too easy. Make the questions interesting. If someone doesn’t know the answer to the question but wants to know, this is a sign of a good question.
The Prize
Some people will come along just for the challenge of the quiz, but good prizes will only help the popularity of the quiz night. If you are holding the quiz in a pub you may be able to pursuade the landlord to give the winners some free drinks (after all, your quiz is bringing him a lot of extra trade!). If the quiz is to raise money for a school or charity try to get prizes donated. If all else fails, you could give a cash prize, but this will probably come out of the profits
How much could you make?
Well, this obviously depends on how many people you have come along to the quiz. Lets assume that you manage to get 50 people, and you charge them 3 each. Thats 150. If you are in a pub this is probably all you are likely to get, unless you are also the landlord, in which case you could have twice the number of people in the pub that night, resulting in twice the number of takings behind the bar.
If you are able to sell additional snacks, chocolates bars and drinks you may be able to raise another 2-5 per person. This adds up to another 100-250 for the night.
To conclude, if you got 50 people to take part you could make between 150 and 400 in a single evening. And this is only for 50 people. Get the number to 100 and you could be taking home 800! Not too bad for a night’s work and some basic advertising.
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